From Cooper Union’s Return of Free Tuition to MOCA’s Shock Move to Fire Its Top Curator: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week

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Cooper Union Will Be Tuition-Free Once Again – Cheers went up after the board voted this week to reinstat a founding tenet of the Cooper Union arts and engineering school—to provide a free education—thanks to a proposed 10-year budget plan that would boost its finances.

MOCA Ousts Its Chief Curator – Helen Molesworth was fired as the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, making her the latest in a string of impressive women to be dismissed from top posts at international arts institutions. Meanwhile, members of the art world signed an open letter in support of María Inés Rodríguez, who was removed from her post as director of Bourdeaux’s contemporary art museum for being “too demanding.”

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